The inverse relation between fish consumption and 20-year mortality from coronary heart disease
- PMID: 3990713
- DOI: 10.1056/NEJM198505093121901
The inverse relation between fish consumption and 20-year mortality from coronary heart disease
Abstract
The low death rate from coronary heart disease among the Greenland Eskimos has been ascribed to their high fish consumption. We therefore decided to investigate the relation between fish consumption and coronary heart disease in a group of men in the town of Zutphen, the Netherlands. Information about the fish consumption of 852 middle-aged men without coronary heart disease was collected in 1960 by a careful dietary history obtained from the participants and their wives. During 20 years of follow-up 78 men died from coronary heart disease. An inverse dose-response relation was observed between fish consumption in 1960 and death from coronary heart disease during 20 years of follow-up. This relation persisted after multiple logistic-regression analyses. Mortality from coronary heart disease was more than 50 per cent lower among those who consumed at least 30 g of fish per day than among those who did not eat fish. We conclude that the consumption of as little as one or two fish dishes per week may be of preventive value in relation to coronary heart disease.
Similar articles
-
Fish consumption and the 30-year risk of fatal myocardial infarction.N Engl J Med. 1997 Apr 10;336(15):1046-53. doi: 10.1056/NEJM199704103361502. N Engl J Med. 1997. PMID: 9091800
-
Dietary intake of marine n-3 fatty acids, fish intake, and the risk of coronary disease among men.N Engl J Med. 1995 Apr 13;332(15):977-82. doi: 10.1056/NEJM199504133321501. N Engl J Med. 1995. PMID: 7885425
-
Fish consumption and risk of stroke. The Zutphen Study.Stroke. 1994 Feb;25(2):328-32. doi: 10.1161/01.str.25.2.328. Stroke. 1994. PMID: 8303739
-
Mortality from coronary heart disease is inversely related to fish consumption in The Netherlands.Nutr Rev. 1985 Sep;43(9):271-3. doi: 10.1111/j.1753-4887.1985.tb02447.x. Nutr Rev. 1985. PMID: 3903564 Review. No abstract available.
-
Fish consumption and coronary heart disease mortality. A systematic review of prospective cohort studies.Eur J Clin Nutr. 1999 Aug;53(8):585-90. doi: 10.1038/sj.ejcn.1600832. Eur J Clin Nutr. 1999. PMID: 10477243 Review.
Cited by
-
A High Docosahexaenoic Acid Diet Alters the Lung Inflammatory Response to Acute Dust Exposure.Nutrients. 2020 Aug 4;12(8):2334. doi: 10.3390/nu12082334. Nutrients. 2020. PMID: 32759853 Free PMC article.
-
Fish oils, coronary heart disease, and the environment.Am J Public Health. 2013 Sep;103(9):1568-76. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2012.300959. Epub 2013 Feb 14. Am J Public Health. 2013. PMID: 23409906 Free PMC article. Review.
-
The association between marine n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid levels and survival after renal transplantation.Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2015 Jul 7;10(7):1246-56. doi: 10.2215/CJN.11931214. Epub 2015 Jun 10. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2015. PMID: 26063768 Free PMC article.
-
Direct evidence of bradycardic effect of omega-3 fatty acids acting on nucleus ambiguus.Neurosci Lett. 2020 Sep 14;735:135196. doi: 10.1016/j.neulet.2020.135196. Epub 2020 Jun 22. Neurosci Lett. 2020. PMID: 32585256 Free PMC article.
-
Dietary fish oil stimulates hepatic low density lipoprotein transport in the rat.J Clin Invest. 1989 Aug;84(2):528-37. doi: 10.1172/JCI114195. J Clin Invest. 1989. PMID: 2760200 Free PMC article.
Publication types
MeSH terms
Substances
Grants and funding
LinkOut - more resources
Full Text Sources
Other Literature Sources
